My name is Adam Martin, I am a 4th year sports development student at UWS and I am seeking assistance for my dissertation.

My topic is: Paying the price for supporting your team: An investigation into the effects of ticket cost and attendances at a Scottish Premiership club.

I have decided to choose Dundee FC as the club to investigate as I know that fan numbers have been affected in recent history, along with financial difficulties. My friend Mark O'Hara also plays for them so I thought he would be able to help me get in contact with relevant people if needed.

So far I am at 134 responses and need 160 so I would greatly appreciate it if you could take 5-10 minutes to fill out my questionnaire. I understand this is a Scottish football forum and I am talking specifically about Dundee, so even if you've only attended Dens Park once or twice or you want to talk generally about Scottish football then that's fine, it's just so I have more numbers.

The answers are completely anonymous and if you decide to withdraw from the study at any time, you do not have to give any reasons for doing so. This would be a great help and could possibly help with ticket pricing in the future of Scottish football.

Read recently the attendances were at the highest they havr been in 10 years this/last season.
Having been to quite a few away games I find that very hard to believe. Only 3 stadiums have been full when I visited them, 1 was Ibrox, 2 was Celtic park and the other was Tynecastle.
The rest were piss poor at turning up to support their team, Dundee being the best of a poor bunch.

Got to ask yourself why LB, well I dont need to as it all comes back to one thing I bang on about all the time.

Same league was there when I was a lad and on TV, terrestrial so people watched the highlights on MOTD but every single person at my school and who I spoke too all watched and supported a Scottish team.

Its rammed down your throat now with SKY and is the only reason the wee guys at school know more about that league than ours.

Its another aspect if the problems with SKY and the money they give that league.......its so much more than just the disparity that it has created.

Got to ask yourself why LB, well I dont need to as it all comes back to one thing I bang on about all the time.
Same league was there when I was a lad and on TV, terrestrial so people watched the highlights on MOTD but every single person at my school and who I spoke too all watched and supported a Scottish team.
Its rammed down your throat now with SKY and is the only reason the wee guys at school know more about that league than ours.
Its another aspect if the problems with SKY and the money they give that league.......its so much more than just the disparity that it has created.

Yeah the games will help but with the TV money comes big wages and big players..........think Bournemouth, aye that shitty wee club, just spent £20 million on a players.
How many season tickets have they sold......sickens my chicken !!!

Got to ask yourself why LB, well I dont need to as it all comes back to one thing I bang on about all the time.

Same league was there when I was a lad and on TV, terrestrial so people watched the highlights on MOTD but every single person at my school and who I spoke too all watched and supported a Scottish team.

Its rammed down your throat now with SKY and is the only reason the wee guys at school know more about that league than ours.

Its another aspect if the problems with SKY and the money they give that league.......its so much more than just the disparity that it has created.

It's called progress Cam....things change & life, society will never stand still....I know at times I come over as a traditionalist but that alone will never stop change/progress. I'll give a couple of wee personal examples....when I was young mobile phones were never heard of (doubt if they had even been thought about)....all there was was phone boxes....time went on....and people started getting phones at home (shock horror) & our first one was on a shared line with another house.....time went on & we got a line of our own.....travel through the years and eventually mobile phones in progressive shapes & technology came to the fore and were accepted....you can hardly go out of the house and see just about everyone walking about staring at their phone.

Another example....again when I was young....as you said lads used to watch highlights of both Scottish & English football.....I used to constantly kick a ball about against our garden steps kidding on I was playing a real game....I even made up a team which consisted of school pals, Foreign & English players....my team was even based in Italy ffs. I loved watching English games whenever they were on & wished there were 'live' games......and eventually over the years games started to be shown live, nothing like now but it had to come due to demand. I just mention this as a couple of examples as to how life progresses and will never remain still.

The debt that clubs may find themselves in has nothing to do with Sky (or any other corporate football investor)....it is down to the individual clubs to run said clubs efficiently.

Yeah sure progress, evolution or whatever we want to call it. Some are a natural progression Dug but this one is down to Sky ( good or bad ) and although you, me, we enjoy watching all football there is this negative effect the changes Sky have had.

Its dramatic and effects not only the playing side and money side of things but the whole social aspect.......have mentioned this before about losing supporters who are Scottish to English teams.....one of my biggest bug bears.

Yeah sure loads of people enjoy watching it Dug, I used to myself until the disparity became rather disgusting. Thats where I drew the line

Yeah sure progress, evolution or whatever we want to call it. Some are a natural progression Dug but this one is down to Sky ( good or bad ) and although you, me, we enjoy watching all football there is this negative effect the changes Sky have had.

Its dramatic and effects not only the playing side and money side of things but the whole social aspect.......have mentioned this before about losing supporters who are Scottish to English teams.....one of my biggest bug bears.

Yeah sure loads of people enjoy watching it Dug, I used to myself until the disparity became rather disgusting. Thats where I drew the line

Can I assume you don't have a satellite dish Cam in protest?

British Champions......33 years and counting Manchester Utd........20 times and counting

I just dont like the way football i this country is Norn and its all down to the TV deals and the other issues that come with it.........I wouldnt have such a big problem if the likes of Chelsea could not spend silly money on players they will never play in the first team while paying them 15 grand or so a week having played little first team football for anyone.

So many problems that now exist that were not problems prior to billion pound deals.